Wednesday, July 15, 1998 Last modified at 11:55 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, 1998

Movie in works on Beach Boy Wilson

Knight-Ridder

PASADENA - A movie is in the works on the roller-coaster life of Beach Boy Brian Wilson, the pop great said last weekend.

"There's a script that's been written about my life, and it looks like within the next three or four months they're going to make a movie on my life," Wilson told TV writers gathered here for the summer Television Critics Association meetings.

Wilson said the film would include as many as a dozen of his songs. "We're not sure exactly of the format of the movie, but I can say there will be a movie on my life and it will have a lot of my songs in it," he added.

Wilson, who founded the group, which included his late brothers Carl and Dennis, was on hand to discuss VH1's "Endless Harmony: The Beach Boys and Their Music." The two-hour documentary will air Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. on Cox Cable Channel 30.

Asked who he'd like to play him, Wilson said his suggestion of Ryan O'Neal had already been rejected.

"But I thought Ryan O'Neal would be a very good approximation of me for the movie," he said.